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Oscar Wilde Quotes

«We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.»
«[Throughout the film, Patrick, who prefers to be called Kitten, dismisses all politics as] serious, serious, serious. ... I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.»
«Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic»
«A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.»
«On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?»
«Doing nothing is hard work.»
«Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.»
«The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!»
«Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.»
«Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.»